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Loss of biodiversity - caused and solved by globalisation?: Difference between revisions
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(cf. Gaston & Spicer, 2004, p.105). | (cf. Gaston & Spicer, 2004, p.105). | ||
Many of the services provided by biodiversity (and therfore biodiversity itself) are global public goods and it is hardly to imagine if these services go down or cease to apply. Because of the concept of global public goods a change in these goods would haven an impact for everybody on this planet | Many of the services provided by biodiversity (and therfore biodiversity itself) are global public goods and it is hardly to imagine if these services go down or cease to apply. For example how could the agricultural sector and an important part of our daily food production survive without the ecosystem service of pollination; what about the fact that the soil offers us clean ground water we are depending on; what is if one relative is death-sick, but the genetic material containing the idea for the medicine saving his life became extinct years ago and finally everybody himself/ herself should imagine what it would mean to live in a world just with monoculture or with less ecosystems in terms of everybody feeling happy when there is the end of winter and the beginning of spring. | ||
Because of the concept of global public goods a change in these goods would haven an impact for everybody on this planet<ref> For more information about the concept of global public goods visit the website of the UNDP, that original developed this concept- [http://www.undp.org/globalpublicgoods/ ''UNDP-Website about global public goods''] </ref> and a high conflict-potential. | |||
==Loss of Biodiversity== | ==Loss of Biodiversity== | ||